Roofing-strip.



O. A HEPPES.

ROOFING STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2e. 191a.

Lf2%,@64h Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

ROOFING-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. M5, 1917..

Application filed July 26, 1915. Serial No. 41,925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Or'ro A. HEPPES a citizen of the United States, residingat a Grange, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use ful' Improvements in Roofing-Strips, of

which the following is a specification.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a roofing strip, preferably out from a continuous sheet of treated fabric, such as felt, having incorporated therewith an asphaltic composition, or the like, whereby to produce harmonious, ornamental designs, simulating slate or tile upon a roof, by laying the strips thereon in interlapped relation, and whereby the extent of lap between adjacent strips is sufficient to prevent leak, the strips being of such shape and config uration that they may be sheared transversely from a continuous sheet of such material in consecutive order without waste.

Another object of my invention is to provide a roof made of such strips by arranging and overlapping said strips in a given order.

Other and further objects of my invention will become readily apparent to persons skilled in the art, from a consideration of the following description when taken in conjunction with the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of one of my improved strips.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of a companion or alternate strip.

Fig. 3 shows a plan view of the aforesaid strips, interlapped, as they appear when placed upon a roof.

In all the views the same reference characters are employed to indicate similar parts.

. The strips are sheared or cut transversely from a continuous sheet of roofing material of uniform width and therefore they are of uniform length. X

The machine for cutting the strips forms subject matter for a copending application file'd of even date herewith, whereby the strips may be sheared in such manner as to be of uniform length and having their longitudinal edges of a somewhat different configuration, with respect to their terminal ends, without the necessity of shifting the sheet at the time when the strips are sheared therefrom.

Fig. 1 shows a strip having angulated or undulated edges of such configuration and inter-relation as to form a general outline of a series of rectangular figures or mem bers, in such manner that the crests or apices of opposite projections, of each of the figures, is in the same transverse plane while the valleys of opposite indentations or depressions are in a contiguous but mutual plane, thereby forming alternate, relatively wide and narrow portions of the strip. \Vhen the top edge of the sheet is serrated, in the manner shown, it results in a saving of thirty three per cent. of material over that required if the strips were of maximum width with a straight top edge. With the plural serrated edge strip there is as much over-lap as if the top edge were straight; therefore, my strip. effects a very material economy in material without affecting its usefulness.

5 represents one of said strips and 6 the other. These are substantially the same, in general appearance, but they are longitudinally displaced with respect to their ends and the width of'the sheet and are sheared from the sheet in alternate order. The strip 5 may terminate as at 7, or as at 8, and reversely the strip 6 may terminate as at 9, or as at 10, or both strips may terminate on the dotted line 11 in which event the stri 5 would have terminations 7 and 9 whi e the strip 6 would have terminations 8 and 10, both corresponding with the longitudinal edges of the same sheet from which they have been cut.

In laying the strips upon the roof, in the form shown in fulllines in Figs. 1 and 2,

i the wide termination 7 of strip 5 will join the wide termination. of strip 6 at the transverse joints, leaving the terminations 8 and 10 to be joined to other similar strips, so that alternately the joints 8 and 10 will appear in consecutive alternate order with the joints 7 and 9. But if the strips are terminated as on dotted line 11, then all strips characterized by the wide joining surface 7 must necessarily be connected in line with strips of this character, while strips, such as 6 must, of necessity, be connected in longitudinal consecutive order with similar strips.

I prefer the configuration shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, for the reason that the strips are substantially duplicates of each other and it would not be necessary to segregate strips of one kind to be joined 1ongitudi-' nally upon the roof with strips of like kind and which Would not be capable of being joined to strips of the character shown at 6 in, Fig. ,2. In F ig. 3 I have shown three strips, substantially the strips shown in Figs. land 2, interlapped as they appear upon the roof. The underlying strip 12 is bounded by the angular outline at the bottom of the figure and by a dotted outline repre sented by a series of dots, at the top edge, as at 13. Strip 14 is bounded on the bottom by full lines 14 angularly related to the bot tom edge of strip 12 and is bounded on the top by a line 16 represented by alternate dots and dashes. I

' The overlying strip 15 is bounded by lines 17 and 18 on the bottom and by lines 19 and 20 on the top.

In laying the strips the crest or point 21 of the superposed strips are brought practically to the valleys 22 of the immediately un derlying strip.

In practice the distance between opposite points 21, of a given strip is or should be about 12% inches and the distance between opposite valleys 22 about 4% inches and eas es ing serrations along each longitudinal edge thereof, the apices of the serrations on one edge being positioned transversely opposite the apices of the serrations on the other edge.

In testimony whereof Ihereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

I @TTO A. HEPPES.

In the presence of- Foniin 13am, MARY ALLEN. 

